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Also, except for popularity, Python didn't go anywhere as a language. What sort of strange definition of progress is the author using for languages?
by m0th87 16y ago
Also, except for popularity, Python didn't go anywhere as a language.
What sort of strange definition of progress is the author using for languages?
- hga 16y agoIf, quoting him quoting Mark Tarver, Python is indeed "not new; its just a sugaring on the Lisp genotype in favour of a syntax that people feel comfortable with.", who then follows with a note on how far that got, it still "went somewhere", both in the adoption by so many of its interesting syntax and dragging people even closer to Lisp than the half-way that Steele said Java accomplished.
- rbanffy 16y agoWhere are languages supposed to go, anyway?
- zephjc 16y agoDidn't you know? To be a truly great language, you have to toil in obscurity like a tortured artist.